Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Mummy!

Ahhh, "Sundays with Mummy", if there's a better monstrosity to spend it with I don't know who, or what it is. Also, I do apologize for the lack of posts lately, it's just been another one of those months. I had originally planned an entire month of weekly mummy stories for May, but regretfully we are just now finally getting around to the first, this one from the June 1953 issue of Forbidden Worlds #18, (art by Harry Lazarus.) More on May Mummies after the story!

Come back next weekend for the Dell Movie Classic version of--- THE MUMMY with art by Jack Sparling (it will probably be another two-parter.)

Thanks for sharing a fun story Karswell!!! I love ACG stuff. What a beautifully garish cover-- the kind I love.The old "restoration pellet" gag :)But, why is the Mummy "like" 7 feet tall? And he even seems taller than that outside the one victim's house?best,r/e

As noted above, the mummy's height is hard to figure. Based on page 3, first panel, I'd put his height at 8 feet tall. But on the panel below that one, he's got a head doubles in size but his hands are still about as big as some guy 8 feet tall. That said, I liked this mummy story and the way the mummy looks. Thanks for posting it! Looking forward to more mummy mayhem.

Willis O'Brien was rather disturbed by the fact that the directions for King Kong involved explicitly different sizes for Kong in different scenes. In later years, this deliberate (if questionable) artistic choice has been confused with a sequence of sloppy errors on the part of poor O'Brien.

Anyway, perhaps the resizing of Rhames was a similar sort of thing.

What I find remarkable is how, across various stories, the rather comic “EEYOWWWW!” is uttered in all seriousness by all manner of entities.

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